I am Qinxing No.1

Chapter 572 Chinese National Dish (The Finale)

China Capital, XX Great Hall.

At this moment, in the largest dining hall of the XX Great Hall, there are already hundreds of tables set up, with various drinks on the tables, and the service personnel shuttle back and forth, but there is not a single dish appearing.

At the same time, people in the political and political circles mainly dominated by merchants, chefs and masters of Xinguqinxing headed by Hu Shenchu ​​and Cai Pinlong, famous chefs of major Chinese restaurants and restaurants, gourmets headed by Cai Chongjiu and Cai Bo, The heads of the Huaxia Cuisine and Food Association, the heads of the provincial associations, the news media who are afraid that the world will not be lively, and the famous project reviewers in the food circles of various countries, sat at each table, and the hall was full of excitement.

It's really a foodie for all the guests, and there are old gourmets coming and going.

The scene was so prosperous for a while, there was no one before, and I don't know if there will be anyone in the future.

Huaxia cuisine is unique in the world and has been famous for a long time, but there has never been a recognized national dish. It is nothing more than the lack of a chef with enough prestige to be admired by diligent people to come forward to determine the national dish.

Even the "God Heroes" and "Eight Gates Chef" in those days have always taken this last step.

Until Zhou Dong was born, he was brilliant and diligent. In just two years, he went from an intern to an international gold medal winner, a master of hard work, and a chef. In the end, he even convinced Cai Pinlong, the master chef of Bamen, so that this notoriously difficult old guy was also convinced.

Coupled with various traditional media and Internet power represented by Long Dashen, all kinds of fuel, a hard-working master and a master chef, the name of the Chinese chef god is like the tip of an iceberg under the sea. Will sit down.

The masters of various cuisines in the hall, although they are worried at the moment, do not know whether their cuisines can benefit from Zhou Dong's determination of the national cuisine, but none of them are dissatisfied, and there will be no one who has a headache like Cai Pinlong. Iron challenge.

It's just that which cuisine does God of Cooking choose as the national dish?No news was revealed beforehand, and everyone was extremely curious.

Even a heavyweight like Shang Lao couldn't help whispering to the people around him with gossip.

The masters representing the major cuisines have changed from guessing at the beginning to arguing with reason, and they are all blushing.

In the great hall, all kinds of sound waves became louder and louder, buzzing non-stop.

It wasn't until 10 o'clock in the morning that Zhou Dong, who was wearing a white chef's uniform, walked out slowly and came to the kitchen table prepared in advance.

At the same time, a group of kitchen workers hastily carried out more than 70 woks, dozens of huge steamers, soup pots, and various vegetables, meat and other ingredients.

People from all walks of life in the audience and people in the industry stared straight at them. Zhou Dong had kept it a secret before, but he refused to say what the national dish was to be determined in public. They could only judge by the kitchen utensils and ingredients used, but The amount of kitchen utensils is amazing, isn't it?

There are more than 70 woks alone, as well as a large number of steamers and soup pots, and a lot of various ingredients are also accumulated.

Is this the national dish determined on the spot, or is the cook preparing the meal in the canteen?
Zhou Dong smiled slightly, and made a gesture of pressing down with his hands: "Everyone, be quiet.

The determination of Huaxia's national cuisine is a big headache for me. China's eight major cuisines and hundreds of small cuisines seem to offend others. "

Everyone in the audience burst into laughter, Zhou Dong was telling the truth, and this was a job to offend people.

"So, I thought of a way."

Zhou Dong also smiled: "I don't choose any cuisines at all, and create my own food that contains the essence of various cuisines, Chinese regional characteristics, and people can't live without. I feel that it can be a national dish!
This dish is not only a dish, but also a meal. It has a nice name, which is called "the people have food, and the country is proud"! "

"If the people have food, how proud are the mountains and rivers?

Well, good name, it seems that my old man is right. "

Old Shang, who was seated in the main seat, nodded repeatedly and looked at Zhou Dong with a gratified expression on his face.Regardless of ancient or modern times, the country is based on the people, and the people depend on food!When the common people are full, only this country and this genius can be stable and prosperous, and be proud and colorful. The name of Zhou Dong's dish won the hearts of the old merchants.

Shang Qingxiong followed with a smile and said: "That is, the person I recommended to Grandpa can be wrong?"

Old Shang laughed loudly: "You kid has done a great job this time, not bad!"

While everyone was talking, more than a dozen super-large basins with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of nearly five feet were placed on the stage in the temporary kitchen area. Dozens of kitchen workers were greeted by Zhou Aiguo and the Su brothers. Pour the bag of rice into the basin.

When the uncooked rice was poured into the washbasin, bursts of rice fragrance wafted out of the nostrils. There were quite a few connoisseurs present, and they could tell from the rice fragrance that although the rice was of top grade, it was all available in the market.

Mr. Shang was slightly taken aback, wondering why Zhou Dong got so much rice, and he didn't use the 'Dark Clouds Chasing Snow' cultivated by A Jiegu. After thinking about it, he felt relieved. If the country's dishes still use the top-quality rice like 'Dark Clouds Chasing Snow', it will lose its 'universal character' and become a top-level delicacy that can only be enjoyed by dignitaries.

However, some diligent people in the audience were puzzled, and some people couldn't help asking: "God of Chef Zhou, your national dish is fried rice, right?

This is too common, and this fried rice is not considered a dish, is it? "

Zhou Dong smiled slightly: "Everyone guessed right. It is fried rice, but it is definitely not ordinary fried rice. You will understand it after two hours."

Dong actually smiled and said: "Everyone who asked the question just now is confused. You need to know that the so-called 'national cuisine' is a concept in a broad sense, not a dish in a narrow sense. Otherwise, Russian borscht is obviously a soup. Will it become a national dish?

It is simply because borscht is not only unique and delicious, but also an indispensable table delicacy for Russians. The top Russian caviar cannot become a national dish, precisely because it is not something that every ordinary person can eat casually. "

"That's right, the fried rice made by my master is comparable to ordinary fried rice?
You all just wait quietly to eat, how can there be so many problems? "

Shi Buyu was very dissatisfied, all of them are hardworking masters, but they look down on fried rice?It's not that I, the old man, look down on you. When it comes to fried rice, besides those few people present, how many people can make qualified fried rice?Do you really think it's easy?

At this moment, more than half of the basins had been filled with rice. After the kitchen workers filled the basin with water, they all left one after another. Zhou Dong rolled up his sleeves and began to wash the rice.

The national cuisine is all about 'universality', so he didn't use the perfect or even legendary vegetable washing skills, but suppressed the skills at the master level, and began to wash rice quickly.

A dozen large tanks with a depth of five feet and a diameter of two meters have to be washed, even if a dozen cooks do it together, it will be exhausting, but Zhou Dong does it alone, and the speed is not slow at all.

I saw him moving forwards and backwards, left and right among a dozen basins, his figure was erratic, and his steps were vigorous. He insisted on controlling the rice water in more than a dozen basins at the same time, and the water swirl in each basin was exactly the same.

The rice milk rose, and the rice grains gradually became crystal clear. After changing the water three times, Zhou Aiguo and the Su brothers immediately asked the chefs to put the cleaned rice into a pot and steam it!
The most delicious rice is of course not steamed, but the amount of rice needed at the moment is large, and it is used to make fried rice, so the requirements for the quality of the rice can be slightly lowered, which can be regarded as reducing the difficulty of operating this national dish, making it Easier to promote in the future.

After the rice was steamed in a cage, Zhou Dong greeted him, holding "Master Xiao Zhou's Kitchen Knife", and immediately a chef threw various ingredients that had been cleaned and processed in advance to him.

In mid-air, you can see the light of knives, like mountains of knives rising from the ground, all kinds of meat and vegetable ingredients are quickly divided into pieces, slices, shreds, and dips, just like magic, with Zhou Dong's knife Gong danced and poured them into dozens of soup pots. When these soup pots were opened, all kinds of aromas overflowed immediately, but they were chicken soup, bone soup, beef soup, mutton soup, fish soup, tofu soup, and even sauerkraut. Soup, spicy vegetable soup, high-salt soup!

There are more than 30 different soups!

I wipe! ! !

Among the colleagues who can come here to watch Zhou Dong determine the national dishes, which one is not a big name in the area?Just relying on the nose, you can quickly distinguish the taste of various soups. When you figure out the color of the soup, you will be confused on the spot and make a fried rice. When do you need so much soup?
At this time, all kinds of ingredients have been divided by Zhou Dong and fell into different soup pots. Zhou Dong took the time to wipe off his sweat and said with a smile: "I am pursuing a big and complete dish this time, but since it is a national dish, we must first consider promoting it." In the future, I will naturally make a teaching video of this national dish for your reference, you can make a full version like mine, or you can make a simplified version, but it is not necessary to use so many kinds of broth every time.”

After hearing this, the diligent masters in the audience breathed a sigh of relief, but in their hearts they were looking forward to the saying "If the people have food, the country will be proud".

After all the ingredients were put into the pot, Zhou Dong inspected the soup pots one by one. The ingredients in each soup pot were different, so some were cooked on a high fire, some were stewed on a low fire, and various civil and military fires changed, and taught them one by one. For three apprentices and some good cooks.

Now that he was so busy, he could take a break from his busy schedule. He took a purple sand teapot from a cook who flattered him, took a sip, and sat aside for a while to rest.

However, just after resting for less than 10 minutes, the rice steamed on the first batch of steamers was already on fire. This time, Zhou Dong didn’t have to do it himself. Clean 'hard' in the freezer.

At the same time, the second round of rice is steaming.

This time he has to cook too much fried rice, at least for everyone present to eat a few bites, so the amount of rice is absolutely indispensable.

Silently counting the time, Zhou Dong got up and said, "Stand up the pot, pour oil!"

More than 30 stoves were turned on at the same time, cold oil was poured into the pot, and more than 30 frying spoons were put into the pot at the same time, leaning against the wall of the pot.

The rice that has been "hardened" in the freezer is also carried to the stoves one by one by the kitchen workers.

While waiting for the oil to heat up, Zhou Dong walked quickly to each soup pot and opened the lids one by one.

Green onions, ginger, eggs, and various seasonings that are popular in different provinces and regions are put on the table one by one.

Zhou Dong hurriedly walked towards the frying pans. He didn't need to watch carefully to distinguish them. He directly used the frying spoons to pick up the required ingredients, and put them into the pots according to different heat levels. More than 30 frying spoons were flying in his hands one by one. The ingredients that have been cooked in the middle are put into the pot one by one.

"Zi la la!"

There was a sound of fried rice, and Zhou Dong strolled among more than 30 woks, with a leisurely demeanor, as if strolling in a garden, performing all kinds of frying, tilting, shunning, twisting, hooking the fire, and turning the wok in an orderly manner. Simultaneously controlled more than 30 furnace eyes and more than 30 frying pans!
The entire dining hall of the XX Great Hall was suddenly silent, and countless people were dumbfounded and fell into a state of confusion. Even Hu Shenchu ​​and Cai Pinlong couldn't believe it.

For an ordinary chef, it is a basic skill for one person to control two stoves.

If you have reached the special two or above, if you go all out, you can control four to eight stoves at the same time.

Those who can control more than ten stoves at the same time are at the master level.

Huaxia Master Chef, if he uses his full strength, he can control about fifteen stoves, and he can also guarantee the quality of the dishes!
But like Zhou Dong, he can control more than 30 stoves at the same time, and the fried rice ingredients on each stove are different, and the ingredients are different, and he has to see the fried rice, which is almost unheard of.

Sure enough, he is the only God of Cooking in China. If there were any doubts about this before, they are all convinced now!
In the huge kitchen area on the stage, Zhou Dong's figure was as fast as a phantom, and even the more than 30 frying spoons sometimes started spontaneously as if no one was controlling them, as if he had seen a ghost.

The sound of stir frying lasted for seven or eight minutes, when Zhou Dong yelled: "Put it on a plate!"

Immediately, dozens of chefs lined up in front of Zhou Dong, holding more than 30 super-large dinner plates with a diameter of half a meter.

"Follow me!"

Zhou Dong put the frying spoon down, took out a spoonful of fried rice from the first frying pan, put it on the plate, and then walked to the second frying pan, and the chef holding the plate immediately followed.
As a result, the fried rice on the first plate gradually became fuller, but it was a plate of assorted fried rice made from one or two spoonfuls of rice in more than 30 woks.

After walking down all the way, the first plate of fried rice was already on the table where Shang Lao was.

Then came the second trip, the second set.

It was too late to say, but it was too soon. After more than 30 oversized dinner plates were filled with fried rice, the rice in the [-] woks had bottomed out.

Zhou Dong greeted everyone, please start frying the second group of fried rice immediately after the 'guests' assigned to the fried rice started tasting.

"This is!"

Hu Shenchu, Cai Pinlong and other master chefs were also "fortunately" assigned to this special fried rice for the first time. In addition to these master chefs, there were senior masters such as Dong Qishen and Yi Zhiyu beside the table. It represents the pinnacle of Chinese culinary cuisine.

But even they were shocked.

On the oversized dinner plate, there is a rooster looking down at the world!
It is exactly what the map of Huaxia looks like.

Moreover, the chicken head, tail, and feathers all have their own colors, which are made up of the natural colors of various ingredients, but they look natural and lack craftsmanship.

That's all, when Cai Pinlong picked up a chopstick from the chicken head and put it into his mouth, this proud man who had seen nothing for most of his life insisted on being silent for a long time before saying: "It turns out to be one taste in one place!
One bite of fried rice, but I tasted the freshness of sauerkraut and white meat, the thick and greasy pork stewed vermicelli, and the special fresh and fatty taste of Songjiang carp?

but"

Chef Hu smiled and said: "But in the end, I have to admit that this is still fried rice. Because although there are regional flavors, they are like the wind passing through the forest. After enjoying it, it's over, and the layers are clear. , never fool around.

At the end of the meal, the unique texture and strong rice aroma of fried rice will still occupy our mouths.

This is indeed the most special fried rice I have ever eaten. "

"When I was on the back of the chicken, I felt like I was holding the mutton with my hands. After the slight smell, it was full of fragrance."

Yi Zhiyu stared at the stage with wide eyes, and suddenly said loudly: "The thirty or so pots of soup understand, I understand!"

"It's really ingenious. The soup retains its special taste in the rice, but because the rice is hard and then it is quickly stir-fried, an isolation layer is formed on the surface of the rice grains, which will not be completely assimilated by the broth, so that it can be preserved' On the basis of the flavors of various places, it also retains the taste that fried rice should have!"

"Not only that, no matter if you eat from south to north, or from east to west, the flavors of various regions will always be completely neutralized by the aroma of rice in the end, and only one taste and one sound will remain in the end!"

"Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!

A plate of fried rice allows us to eat all kinds of cuisines from the north and the south, but it is just the most common rice on the table of ordinary people!

This is the delicacy that deserves to be a Chinese national dish!

It is the national dish qualified to represent China! "

All kinds of comments and praises kept ringing in the XX Great Hall, and finally merged into one voice.

"Today, our Yangyang Huaxia finally has its own national dish!

Today, China finally has the world's first God of Cooking! "

"Master Zhou!"

"God of Chef Zhou!"

End of the book

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